Thanks to a tweet from Pottermore, the digital presence of JK Rowling’s wizarding world, we now know – whether we want to or not – that before Muggle plumbing was adopted “witches and wizards simply relieved themselves wherever they stood, and vanished the evidence”.

Fans of the Harry Potter books immediately had questions.

Vanishing is taught in year 4 so what did they do with younger students/childs? 🤔

And people were quick to point out that there were plenty of solutions available before plumbing was invented.

I’m not sure which makes me angrier: that no Wizard had thought up a basic outhouse before the eighteenth century, or that I am currently thinking about wizard defecation habits in the pre-Victorian era.

I refuse to accept this as canon. Medieval castles had toilets. It was a hole in the wall with a piece of wood over it with a hole cut in it. The waste would fall down into a room that a servant would shovel out. I 100% believe Hogwarts had bathrooms and this is what they had.